{"id":21257,"date":"2018-05-25T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2018-05-23T09:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:59:55","slug":"sncb-at-brussels-midi-22-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sncb-at-brussels-midi-22-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"SNCB at Brussels Midi 22 Years Ago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon arrival from K\u00f6ln, Germany On this day, 25 May 1996, my father and I made photographs in the rain at Brussels Midi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SNCB_class28_Brussels_Midi_25May1996_detail-1\u00a9BrianSolomon_589304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21258\" 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\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve since returned to Brussels on many occasions when the weather has been more hospitable.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels is among the cities profiles in my new book <a href=\"https:\/\/kalmbachhobbystore.com\/product\/book\/01304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Solomon\u2019s Railway Guide to Europe<\/a>, now available from <a href=\"https:\/\/kalmbachhobbystore.com\/product\/book\/01304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kalmbach Books\/Kalmbach Hobby Store.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tracking the Light Posts Daily!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon arrival from K\u00f6ln, Germany On this day, 25 May 1996, my father and I made photographs in the rain at Brussels Midi. I\u2019ve since returned to Brussels on many occasions when the weather has been more hospitable. Brussels is among the cities profiles in my new book Brian Solomon\u2019s Railway Guide to Europe, now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/sncb-at-brussels-midi-22-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SNCB at Brussels Midi 22 Years Ago!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4537,4594,575,205,577,7535,580],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SNCB_class16_pan_Brussels_Midi_25May1996-1-\u00a9BrianSolomon_589300.jpg?fit=1717%2C1165","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5wR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21262,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions\/21262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}